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> Nvidia and their amazing software stack and support for their hardware. Linus seems to disagree https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tQIdxbWhHSM https://m.youtube.c

• mnau 2y ago
  His comment has nothing to do with quality of software or quality of support, but is about dealing with NVidia. Trying to work with NVidia (as a hardware manufacturer) must have been frustrating, but that has nothing to do with quality of the software. The video is 12 years old. A lot changed in the meantime. AMD has open source drivers and crashes often. NVidia has (or more precisely had) closed source drivers that nearly always work.
• alecco 2y ago
  That was about drivers and in 2012. At the time Linux was not interesting for them as clients. But now with AI, Nvidia has open source drivers. https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Transitions-OSS-KMD https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Transitions-OSS-KMD
  • akimbostrawman 2y ago
    >Nvidia has open source drivers. Kernel Module Driver which is most likely less than 5% of drivers.
• lmm 2y ago
  Torvalds wants open drivers, and NVidia doesn't do that. NVidia's drivers are better than their competitors by enough to make it worth buying NVidia even when their hardware is objectively worse, so much as I would prefer open-source in principle, I can understand why they don't want to give away the crown jewels. (I can't watch videos)